<p>I got a letter/ packet from Harvard today, and I don't really understand why. My last ACT test was a 25, but I feel like on the last test I feel like I got a 32(ish). So do you guys think that they already got my new score?</p>
<p>I really doubt it because how fast can they process my scores, then send them to schools and then they can send me the packet? I don't think so..</p>
<p>any comments are welcomed. thanks.</p>
<p>I think they sent you the packet based on the GPA you entered in college board. My oldest daughter and my second daughter all got one.</p>
<p>I agree - it is either based on what you entered when you signed up for the ACT or your PLAN/PSAT score. Either way…its cool thing to receive!</p>
<p>Means nothing. They send out something like 75,000 of these. Just trying to boost the number of applications by flattering kids into applying. This isn’t a comment on your chances, about which I know nothing. But I do think it’s a pretty shabby tactic on Harvard’s part. They don’t need all those extra apps, or the fees that go with them. They just want bragging rights on the number of kids they reject, and they get there by encouraging more kids to apply just so they can reject more of them. Poorly done, Harvard. This should be beneath the dignity of a great institution, but apparently it’s not.</p>
<p>I totally agree. My oldest daughter has weighted 4.46 GPA and 3.98 unweighted GPA and rank 1 from 430 students at the time of applying (rank 3 at graduation). With 17 activities and highest level (level 10) on piano and 32 ACT composite did not even get on the wait list. My second daughter has almost same GPA and rank, but she is not going to apply those Ivy schools any more. It is a waste of money.</p>
<p>you have to sell yourself too though, i mean you can be a robot and do all the things your oldest did above, and not that those dont help, but thats only part of it</p>
<p>you also need to make yourself into a cool person, someone they want to have on campus based on teacher recs/essays</p>
<p>people seem to always forget that</p>
<p>25 to 32? Goodluck? :o</p>